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In typical Colbert fashion, the host amicably navigated the heated topic with a little humor.
Colbert shares, “I can only explain my experience which is I have a strong desire to direct my gratitude towards something or someone. And that thing is God.”
As he joked at an earlier event, The Cardinal and Colbert: Humor, Joy and the Spiritual Life: “If Jesus doesn’t have a sense of humor, I am in huge trouble.”
However, while it’s important to be winsome in witnessing to unbelievers, one could certainly argue that Colbert’s side of the debate lacked some theological depth.
If you’d like to explore a more weighty discussion on the existence of God, Tim Keller does an excellent job of expounding upon this topic in his Google Talk “The Reason for God.”
Watch as Tim expertly tackles three of the most common questions that plague our culture today: why the reasons for God are important, how the reasons for God work and what the reasons for God really are.